if you believe in any form of free enterprise at all, the idea that the Pentagon can not only cut off your contract but designate you a supply chain risk and prevent other companies from buying from you just because you won't build killbots for the government should be terrifying

this is just who they are they do bad things everywhere all the time because they are evil and stupid and constantly indulging their very worst impulses there’s no twelve dimensional plan here

Anthropic responds to Hegseth. www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...

To recap: Anthropic refused to do killbots or mass surveillance. DOD trying to destroy company. Altman: we are now working with DOD, who totally respect safety and oppose mass surveillance! Why would anyone trust a word Altman says after this?

I am going to need every single person who said that misinformation was a moral panic to feel enough shame and regret that they leave public intellectual life.

Relevant to today's conversation about AI's inherent sexism, here's an email from cognitive psychologist and early AI theorist Roger Schank, arguing to Epstein that women can't be truly intelligent, because they care too much about what other people think.

Ok Mapsky anyone have favorites for cartogram algorithms in 2026? I did a quick implementation of House Kocmoud (1998) since that was my gold standard in 2010 but much has happened since then. Just ran the latest Gastner and its a big improvement. Do we want a qgis plugin that supports all these?

American not only becoming a cult of personality but becoming the dumbest cult of personality in the history of the human species is a lot to process

A day ago the EPA officially rejected the science on global warming. Beyond "oh, that happened" I won't read about it. I won't silently evaluate the coverage of it, as I often do. This item is going into the "too stupid, too important to be that stupid, and too painful" bucket. Do you ever do that?

“Democrats can speak with conviction about what they know to be right, wrong, and true.” @gregsargent.bsky.social has me up on the table with this takedown of Leonhardt-style popularism. He’s absolutely right. Be loud. Be convicted. Show the truth. Persuade people. That’s politics.

However low your opinion is of those running the country, it's not low enough. Completely unserious, self-absorbed sociopaths. (Read the whole thread)

But the progressives and socialist democrats are, so establishment Dems need to step aside and let them lead. They aren’t the revolutionaries. And that’s ok. What’s not ok is refusing to acknowledge that and stepping back to allow others who are built for this moment to take the reins.

As if Ukrainian refugees haven’t endured enough suffering, now they must face this as legal immigrants in the US.

DWhite time to shine

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Again, in actual democracies, ministers resign all the time, under threat of a no confidence vote in the parliament. We have a system where legislative confirmation totally fails ex ante to screen out wildly unqualified people, & ex post accountability depends on a toothless extraordinary measure.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

They've been garbage forever! This is from six years ago! www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

King George, 1782:

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Some are saying letting a bunch of total morons with unlimited money buy up the media to promote stories about how cool they were was bad but who can say.

It isn’t healthy to be this angry all the time. But it also isn’t healthy if this doesn’t make you angry.

Breaking NYT: The FBI agent who sought to investigate the federal immigration officer who fatally shot Renee Good has resigned from the bureau, according to two people familiar with the matter, after leadership pressured her to discontinue a civil rights inquiry into the officer.

The guy shot two random people with a gun, I don't think you can say he wasn't assimilating into our culture

This is murder. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Finally made it to the @mapcenter.com

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

“This is a man who’s suffering dementia,” said @govpritzker.illinois.gov. “This is a man who has something stuck in his head … He doesn’t read. He doesn’t know anything that’s up to date. It’s just something in the recesses of his brain that is effectuating to have him call out these cities.”

So they weren’t peaceful tourists? I’m losing the plot. (Also, that means he pardoned Antifa, in case anyone cares)

Bray is a historian at Rutgers who received death threats after landing on Turning Points USA's Professor Watchlist. As a result, he announced he was moving to Europe. And then this happened. This kind of harassment and abuse of scholars is Charlie Kirk's legacy and it's only getting worse.

🚨🚨🚨 ALERT: In direct violation of a court order, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is moving forward with firing thousands of State Department employees and eliminating several offices on Friday, June 27. BUT WE'RE FIGHTING BACK. Join us tmw at 11am at 22nd & C. www.govexec.com/workforce/20... (1/)

This is a Hall of Fame reader comment on a very reactionary op-ed about Zohran Mamdani's victory that was published in my local paper today.

MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs? VOUGHT: I reject the assertion MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact

louder for the people in the back

The most important part of republican fascism is the demand you must be nice to them.

Good morning. We knew the answers to questions like these when the JCPOA was in effect. Again, in a more serious country, unilaterally withdrawing from that agreement would have immediately ended Trump's first presidency & destroyed the GOP's reputation on national security policy for a generation.

This project shows the fine line between geography, qualitative analysis of the human experience, and art atlasofintangibles.com #stateofthemapus #sotm2025 #sotmus #geography #london @stateofthemapus.bsky.social

Justice Jackson taking on Gorsuch's "pure textualism" and arguing for a more holistic reading of Congress' handiwork—worth reading in full. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...

#SOTMUS kicking off with welcome from @tiffanychu.bsky.social !

Walz announces that Rep. Melissa Hortman is dead as a result of a "politically motivated assassination"

They launched a coup, suffered no consequences for it, won back power, and have used the power to pardon everyone involved while remaking the country through violence and intimidation. It’s just ridiculous to talk about the political violence of yelling at ICE agents within that context.

remembering headlines from last year

Naming and shaming airlines on Twitter used to work so here’s a shot. @jetblue2.bsky.social #jetblue loves to move flights by 2.5 hours then charge you $300 to fix it so I am done with them. #enshittification has reached the prestige brands I guess. #flying

One of the “gang members” that was disappeared and deported is a queer tattoo artist